I read today that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent two burly officers into a Missouri lingerie shop, flashing their badges and confiscating two dozen panties, claiming that the boutique had violated copyright laws because “KC” was printed across the bottoms.
Is anybody besides me in the USA just a little mortified and angered to read that this 12-years-ago-created federal department specifically chartered to “secure the United States from terrorist threats or attacks” is confiscating two dozen women’s panties in the national headlines and proclaiming in the story “we (DHS) do this sort of thing all the time”? Really?
Are they now America’s FBI? Our national security agency? Our federal marshals program? Our CIA? The Missouri state police? Is the DHS now so powerful as a law enforcement agency that it has eclipsed the once widely respected Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and has hypnotically taken over the counterfeiting, smuggling, production and marketing of two dozen “KC” panties? And did the agency’s deferred-to national spokesman actually have the chutzpah to proclaim to the national media something like; “we do this all the time these days people, so get off!”